We will stay here now, yes? Because the ship is broken and we cannot go home.

[And chances are low that they will manage to get off planet, but Muscovy doesn't really see a point in that - the planet is warm and while, like every other place, it has its dangers, it seems like a fertile place that one should be able to make a good living on.]

So everyone should get married and have children, yes? Because unless you're immortal you will need them to take care of you when you get old, or ill. And it will be less scary to live here when there are children around, because it will feel more like a place that is home to everyone, yes? And it is a warm feeling to be with family and home, so it will make everyone happier.

If you know whom you want to marry but you don't know how to tell them, you can write them a letter and I will bring it to them!

And if you don't know whom to marry yet, you can tell me and I will tell you who else is trying to find someone to marry and then you can look at each other and talk about it. And then you can have children and be happy, yes?

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[Hurt each other. His heart sinks to hear that, though he never would be so naive as to think that someone would think of these things without pain; in his admittedly limited experience, the two are hopelessly entwined. He just wishes Muscovy didn't know these things.]

Muscovy... Um... I'm not sure about the difference, b-but.

[He can feel his face turning red again.]

P-people'll always use this stuff to hurt each other. But you know better right? The important thing is that you, uh... you love each other.

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[He does, admittedly, not know much. Bits and pieces that he has observed by chance or misfortune - he's been on a good number of festivities and been in villages that got raided or in places where more formal military actions took place too often not to. And then some unconnected bits that he has heard people talk about. But there is no true understanding of connections, to a big part because it is so far away from his own perception, emotions and feelings.

And now he's suddenly worried and confused.]

Is love not really love when that isn't a part of it? [Because he does think that he loves his sisters. ...And maybe all people that he thinks of as family, he isn't sure about that. And parents love their children, don't they? He always thought they did...]

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[Muscovy very much notices this and decides that if he ever meets this Ennis, he'll tell her that she should marry Firo because he really likes her like that. It is silly if they should like each other and don't get married.

He nods slowly.]

But not always, yes? People only laugh about you for it when when the person you like is "out of your league". ...Is Ennis "out of your league"?